Haw River Wine Trail Tour

Haw River Wine Trail Tour with Tobacco Road Tours

North Carolina is home to over 100 wineries. The Tobacco Road Haw River Wine Trail Tour explores three of the best artisan wineries along the 50-mile wine trail. This short scenic drive winds through the heart of rural North Carolina, following the path of the Haw River. Located between Durham and Greensboro, the close proximity to NC’s Triangle and Triad area make this a wonderful, convenient way to spend a leisurely day of wine tasting and beautiful countryside sightseeing.

Fun and informative wine tastings at three wineries. Let us teach you the “technique” of wine tasting. We will discuss the history of our state’s fast growing wine industry, and the attraction of North Carolina’s wines.

A delicious lunch in North Carolina’s wine country (inform us of special dietary needs).

A chauffeured ride through our wine country, along North Carolina’s scenic highways and back roads.

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Grove Winery & Vineyards: The 44-acre Guilford County farm features a small, artisan winery located on the sloping, mineral rich land of the Haw River Valley region. All grapes are hand harvested and used for a limited production of about 3000 cases of premium wine each year.

Iron Gate Vineyards & The Winery at Iron Gate Farms: Family-owned, by an energetic group of siblings, Iron Gate excels in the tasting experience department having won over 19 awards since 2005. Situated on rolling farm land once producing Brightleaf tobacco, Iron Gate Winery is picturesque from every angles.

Rock of Ages Winery & Vineyard: Located in North Carolina’s southern Person County on the Moore family estate where tobacco was grown for generations. Communion wine was also produced on this land by Ernest Moore for area churches in the early 1900s. Now, his grandson, Kevin Moore and his wife, Kimberly, are carrying on that tradition as they are…”blending the old into the new.”

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Why ‘Tobacco Road’

Used by the Native American tribes during important ceremonies, tobacco has been a mainstay agricultural crop since the 1600s and grown throughout the Sandhills, Piedmont and Mountain regions of North Carolina. North Carolina is still the number one producer of tobacco in the US.

The name 'Tobacco Road' traditionally means "a squalid poverty stricken rural area or county." Most tobacco farms in the south were owned by families and located in small, rural areas. 'Tobacco Road' was dubbed by the media when referring to the many Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) teams in close proximity off old US-Hwy 70: Duke, NC State, UNC and Wake Forest.Read more about Tobacco Road Tours